The cover for this book is preposterous, but also… foreshadowing? So, I really liked this book. Both of the leads were wonderful, and I enjoyed how well the romance was integrated with the non-romantic plot. It goes something like this: Edward de Lacey, the second son of a Duke, has always been the responsible one. After his father dies, leaving behind whisperings of a possible first marriage that could invalidate the legitimacy of his and his brothers’ birth and claim to the title, Edward sets […]
Minerva Highwood’s great-great-great granddaughter is free on Kindle, but her book could be better
Sometimes three stars are because a book was overall average, and sometimes it’s because of an actual mean — a combination of one-star and five-star moments that leave me confused and with whiplash. Here’s your Heroine: Not that she literally fights crime, but she’s described by her best friend like this: “… big boobs, small waist, big butt, long legs, amazon woman thing you have going on. Pair that package with your curly auburn hair and big hazel-green eyes.” So, naturally, she’s hideous. JOKES! She’s […]
A checklist of 80’s trivia in book form
Okay. I’ve been sitting on this review for about two weeks, getting my head around how I felt about Armada for a bit longer, and 3.5 stars it is. It’s not a bad book — all things considered, it’s very entertaining — but even without comparing it directly to Ernest Cline’s first (and still best) book Ready Player One, it is precocious and simple in ways that aren’t completely flattering. There will be some spoilers below, and I’ll mark them. In this paragraph, I will […]
Romantic suspense that came recommended and which I now, too, recommend
Against the Dark was a very fun entry to a series I plan on finishing. Thank you to Malin and Sophia for the recommendation! Angel Rodriguez is a retired safecracker who is pulled into one last mission with her old gang, because the life of a loved one is on the line and she is the only one who can crack a certain make of safes, due to an apprenticeship with their inventor. The burglary job targets Walter Borgola, one of the most slimy and reprehensible […]
In which I endorse a recent NPR romance recommendation
Listed as an honorable mention for Beverly Jenkins in NPR’s recent 100 recommended romances list, I gave Topaz a try as it covers two bases I haven’t much encountered: Westerns and African-American hero/ines. All things considered, I liked Topaz very much; though, admittedly, I found the prose to be lacking in sophistication (which is what knocks off the fifth star.) Still, Jenkins obviously has her finger on the pulse of what makes a romance successful. Katherine Love is a newspaper reporter in the late 19th […]
A short, lazy review that you shouldn’t read because you should be reading UPROOTED instead.
Uprooted was so good and I bought it immediately after returning my copy from the library. Everything about this book worked like gangbusters for me: the arc of the protagonist, the slow revelations behind the enigmatic “Dragon” character, the FEMALE FRIENDSHIP (squee!), the adventure, the homage to Slavic fairy tales and horror, the magic — everything! Here’s the teaser from Goodreads because I’m lazy: “Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on […]
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